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cs.CV2026
HiRo: A Compact Four-Directional Hierarchical Reservoir Token-Mixer for Efficient Image Classification
Md Farhadul Islam, Ishan Thakkar, J. Todd Hastings
Recent image classification models must balance local feature modeling, cross-window interaction, and parameter efficiency. Many high-performing architectures rely on fully trainab…
physics.optics2026
Scaling Photonic Tensor Cores with Unary and Homodyne Designs
Oluwaseun Alo, Ishan Thakkar
We analyze five photonic microring tensor core designs with a common optical power model. The results show that circuit ordering, unary encoding, and homodyne accumulation shape sc…
cs.AR2026
Sustainable Transformer Neural Network Acceleration with Stochastic Photonic Computing
S. Afifi, O. Alo, I. Thakkar +1
Transformers achieve state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing, vision, and scientific computing, but demand high computation and memory. To address these challen…